BIO

Patrick Boehler has published on China and Southeast Asia in four languages for publications in the US, Europe and Asia. After stints with Austria's ministries of defence and foreign affairs in Vienna and Beijing, he began his reporting career in Kuala Lumpur with the Malaysian online news portal Malaysiakini and, later, The Irrawaddy Magazine, a Myanmar exile publication in Thailand. He holds a doctorate in political science and has taught journalism at the University of Hong Kong.
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Relatives of crew members wave flags as China's hospital ship "Peace Ark" leaves a naval port for the Philippines, to assist the victims of Typhoon Haiyan, in Zhoushan Island on Thursday. Photo: Reuters

Politics21st Century Business Herald*
Politics and Law Commission could be excluded from interference in individual court cases, the report says citing an unidentified source.Caijing
"A Singapore-style approach - combining a freewheeling market economy and an authoritarian regime - has clearly emerged from the plenum," writes Yao Yang, director of the China Center for Economic Research at Peking University.People's Daily*
People's Daily*
China needs to "build an open economic system", writes Vice Premier Wang Yang.ChinaFile
"'Stability maintenance' does blanket coverage, but the blanket, most of the time, is soft. This is because citizens are well accustomed to monitoring themselves," writes Perry Link.